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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

Bobby Jones

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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Appreciate Disappointment Golf
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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Games Golf Men
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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Fate Golf Hero
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Games Golf Play
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Golf Long Men
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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Balls Hurt Thinking
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Airplane Differences Golf
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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Eight Feet Golf
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade

You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

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